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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katrin Kogman-Appel (birth date: 8/10/58)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.647kg ISBN: 9780271027401ISBN 10: 0271027401 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 05 October 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface IntroductionPart I: Acculturation and Borrowings from Christian Art1. The Manuscripts2. Motif Books and Images from Memory: Image Making in the Golden Haggadah and British Library, Or. 28843. The Rylands Haggadah and British Library, Or. 14044. The Sarajevo Haggadah and the Bologna-Modena Mahzor5. Other Methods of Image Making Conclusions to Part OnePart II: Meaning and Message6. Jewish Biblical Exegesis Employed in the Strategy of Image Making7. Designing the Messages of the Sephardic Picture Cycles: The Cultural Profile of the People Involved Conclusions to Part Two Notes Bibliography Photo Credits IndexReviewsThe book breaks new ground in its close examination of the seven earliest and most significant illuminated Sephardic Haggadot as representatives of a new phenomenon - the embellishment of Haggadot with extensive cycles of Biblical imagery. Recognizing the diversity of relationships among these works, it grounds the emergence and content of their imagery within the unique cultural-intellectual context of late medieval Iberian Jewry. - Pamela A. Patton, Southern Methodist University Author InformationKatrin Kogman-Appel is Lecturer in the Department of Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. Kogman-Appel's credentials include publishing Jewish Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Spain (2001) as well as contributing to Imaging the Early Medieval Bible, edited by John Williams and published by Penn State Press in 1999. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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